Come'on... it's the Browns.... we can beat this team... right???

I hope not

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Didn't feel this needed it's own thread, but I found this on Reddit and thought I'd share:

 

There's something about December and the Browns and the Jaguars that almost always seems to culminate in something interesting, weird and/or catastrophic.

 

December 24th, 1995 -- The Jags were born into the old AFC Central in 1995, the same year the old Browns franchise moved. The Jags hosted the final game ever played by the original Cleveland Browns, on Christmas Eve. The Jags were coming off of a 7-game losing streak and the Browns five, following the November 5th announcement of the move. Baby Jesus was not kind to the Browns -- we lost on a last minute Mike Hollis FG.

 

December 19th, 1999 --- The year we returned, one of our "big acquisitions" was Orlando Brown, who was supposed to help shore up our expansion-quality line. On December 19th, Jeff Triplette threw a penalty flag which -- improbably enough -- flew through Brown's face mask and struck him in the eye. Brown ended up attacking Triplette, pushing him to the ground. His family had a history of eye problems and taking a ball-bearing-weighted flag to the eye was devastating. Brown was released by the team the next year and didn't play again until 2003. Tim Couch was also lost that game for the remainder of the year. The Jaguars won, 24-14.

Video of the flag throw in a short retrospective of Brown's life

 

December 3rd, 2000 -- Fred Taylor runs for 181 yards and 3 TDs to power the Jaguars to a 48-0 win. When Browns coach Chris Palmer is fired at the end of the season, it is leaked that the decision was made in the owner's box after this game.

 

December 16th, 2001 -- Bottlegate. A blown replay that shouldn't have been led one guy to throw his beer bottle onto the field. Thousands followed. Both teams exit under a hail of bottles. After a 30 minute delay, the teams return to the field to run off the last 48 seconds. Jags win, 15-10.

Potato-quality video of of the run-up and execution of Bottlegate

 

December 8th, 2002 -- The Hail Morgan game. Quincy Morgan, the same guy that dropped the pass that led to the replay mistake that resulted in Bottlegate. Tim Couch becomes (and remains) the only QB with two wins by Hail Mary (50+ yds) in NFL history. Browns win by 1.

Hail Morgan

 

After the 2002 season the NFL realigned, making Browns/Jags December games quite rare. The only such game since then was in 2005.

 

December 4th, 2005 -- Rookie Charlie Frye, making his first start for the Browns in relief of an injured Trent Dilfer, got the Browns out to a 14-3 lead in the first half. David Garrard, making his 4th NFL start, scored 17 unaswered in the 3rd quarter, winning the game 20-14. Also in that game, Braylon Edwards was lost for the season with a knee injury and Reuben Droughns became the first 1000 yard rusher for the Browns in 20 years.

 

And now we can add Gordon's ridiculous game and MJD throwing a TD pass to the list.

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